Simeon Says

I am working on building out a new idea and decided to use the Heroku platform to deploy. Heroku is an amazing platform that is built as a front for EC2 that simplifies deploying Rails applications. Beyond being a great platform that takes away all the hassles of deploying rails applications, all your deployment is actually done via Git. By specifying Heroku as a remote in your git project you are able to push your changes and Heroku will automatically deploy your application.

So all of that works wonderfully. I have been working on the application on my desktop and everything has been great. But tonight I wanted to work on the application from my laptop. Heroku uses SSH security to allow you access to your application. On github there is a section in your account where you can upload your ssh keys so they can be tied to your account. But in looking through the admin pages on Heroku I could find no such section. In fact after thinking about it a bit I could not remember setting one up on my desktop the first time.

The trick here is that the Heroku app does this for you when you initialize the application. So to add a second computer to your account on Heroku you create a new git repository, then from that directory run heroku config. This will guide you through logging into the Heroku platform as well as uploading your ssh keys so you can access the repository. So the actual commands would look something like

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mkdir myapp
cd myapp
git init
heroku config
git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:myapp.git
git pull remote master

Hope that helps if you need to use multiple computers to work on one application on Heroku.

PS. if you want to add additional contributors that is actually covered very clearly in their docs here